Identification tags



May 27, 1958 P. N. BRAUN 2,336,290

IDENTIFICATION TAGS Filed June 19, 1956 F zw C A;TORNEY.

United States Patent IDENTIFICATION TAGS Philip N. Braun, Syracuse, N.Y.

Application June 19, 1956, Serial No. 592,316

1 Claim. (Cl. 20656) This invention relates to identification tagsapplied to garments and like articles by thermoplastic adhesive materialwith the application of heat and pressure. Such tags are usedextensively in laundry and dry cleaning processes and in such use, thetags are removed from the garments, or other articles, after thecompletion of the laundry and dry cleaning operation.

This invention has as an object tags of the type referred to produced inthe form of a tape, the connected tags being coated on one surface witha thermoplastic adhesive material, and each tag of the tape having arelatively narrow strip of sheet material applied thereto, and whichserves as a seal barrier to prevent a portion of a tag, severed fromsaid tape, from becoming sealed to the garment, or other article.

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations andconstructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanyingdrawings in which like characters designate corresponding parts in allthe views.

In the drawings- Figure 1 illustrates a portion of the tape from whichthe identification tags are severed.

Figure 2 illustrates a severed tag.

Figure 3 is a lengthwise sectional view of a severed tag illustratingits application to a piece of fabric.

Figure 4 is a face view of a severed tag.

The tape may be formed of any suitable material, such as high wetstrength paper, or textile fabric. and is coated on one side with athermoplastic adhesive material, as indicated at 11. Seal barrier strips12 are applied to the tape, on its coated side, so that these stripsoverlie a portion of the coated side of each tag severed from the tape.As shown, the seal barrier strips 12 are in the form of individualstrips positioned at spaced intervals along the tape and extendtransversely, or crosswise, thereof, the spacing of the strips beingsuch that each of the strips 12 will overlie a portion of the coatedsur- Patented May 27, 1958 Hce 2' 1 face of each tag. In the arrangementshown, the tags are severed from the tape along the outer edge of thestrips 12, whereby the strip 12 overlies an end portion of each tag.

The tape is provided with perforations or apertures 13 at uniform spacedintervals, these apertures being entered by a feeding finger of the tapefeeding mechanism of the machine employed for printing, severing andattaching the tags to the garments, or other articles, being launderedor dry cleaned. Such a machine is shown in my copending application,Ser. No. 459,294, filed September 30, 1954.

The individual tags severed from the tape, Figures 2 and 4, arepositioned on the garments indicated at 15, Figure 3, with thethermoplastic coating 11 contacting the garment. The tag and the garmentare squeezed together and heat is applied to the tag to reactivate thethermoplastic material, whereby it serves as a medium of securing thetag to the garment. The seal barrier strip 12, positioned on the coatedside of the tag, serves to prevent that area of the tag from scaling tothe garment. The seal barrier strip is positioned adjacent one side edgeportion of the tag and this unsealed portion of the tag, and includingthe seal barrier strip, provides a convenient means for grasping thetag, whereby it may be conveniently removed from the garment by apeeling action after the laundry or dry cleaning process.

The tape is economically formed in rolls and furnished to the customerin that manner and provides for the severance of complete individualidentification tags which are conveniently aiiixed to the garments, orother articles, by the application of heat and pressure.

What I claim is:

A tape in the form of a series of connected identification tags ofrectangular shape for attachment to garments and the like by theapplication of heat and pres sure, said tape being entirely coated onone side with a thermoplastic adhesive material, separate seal barrierstrips of sheet material positioned on the coated side of said tape atspaced intervals therealong and extending crosswise of the tape, saidstrips being permanently adhered to the tape by said thermoplasticmaterial and being uncoated on their exposed surfaces.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS2,170,147 Lane Aug. 22, 1939 2,248,317 Van Cleef July 8, 1941 2,323,342McManus et a1 July 6, 1943 2,417,497 Hulslander Mar. 18, 1947 2,434,545Brady et al, Ian. 13, 1948

